Having been a public employee for 10 years (not anymore!), I can only imagine that to get an entire crowd of entrenched lifers to switch to something new would be an incredible sales job; unless, perhaps, they were moved off of a centralized, legacy dumb-terminal environment. In that case, Linux would be their first windowed desktop.
In any case, a cheap, license-free (or let's say, unencumbered by restrictive licensing) desktop would be a natural for public entities that are currently facing very tight budgets. Whether the employees would be happy and productive with such a setup depends on how much work the IT department will put into the changeover; if it's left up to the individual user, happy faces won't be easy to find there.
It's too bad he no longer has Gene Siskel to balance out his reviews, at least in the video realm; I miss the reviews where Roger would detail an actress' portrayal, and Gene would say something to indicate that he though she was hot!
Personally, I stopped paying attention to reviews years ago (when I found out Leonard Maltin had given Blade Runner 1 and 1/2 stars in his film guide), and instead go on what I see in the previews.
As for this movie, I've seen the Zoolander preview about 4 times now; based upon it, I can't imagine paying for a movie that looks that stupid.
Without getting into religious wars about which Nix is better (I mainly admin HPs now but have touched many a different platform), I have to believe that HP customers everywhere are worse off for this; HP has been saying for years that they would be moving forward with HP/UX on IA-64 (they built and sold the N-class HP9000's as a machine which would run either PA-RISC or IA-64 when the time came to choose).
Because of that forward product motion, customers could standardize on the HP platform, and buy 3rd party apps and other items that ran under HP/UX (Oracle in particular, since HP/UX is widely used as a base for client/server). With HP/UX 11i as their main server OS, they had some serious scalability and reliability going for them. HP/UX will be supported for the next few years, of course, but once that ends, customers will have the future budgetary choices of sticking with whatever direction Carly takes them in, or abandon HP for a more consistently-managed vendor (i.e. IBM). Bet they pick the latter choice.
In a variety of areas on Yahoo!, like email, personals (sigh, yes I read the personals), fantasy sports, etc. Yahoo! is conducting a voluntary 'survey', thinly disguised as a test balloon for the notion of charging for services.
I've filled out at least 3 of them, and they all end up with questions about whether cost would be a major factor in paying for [related service].
Guess they found out that ad volume alone would not support their operation. Glad I didn't buy that stock (YHOO) when it was up in the $200's...
If you go to NASDAQ.com, you will find that EXDS is halted as of 9/26, pending further news. At $0.17, not much room left between here and 0 anyway... may want to sell for a loss when you can. (JMHO)
Having worked there in the recent past, I can say that Q can also be compared to the other big ISPs in terms of overbuilding for a 'new economy' boom that didn't last. They *loved* throwing hardware at any and all issues and projects. And, like many of these other companies, Q has laid off or will lay off many of the people that were previously required to run these networks and CyberCenters. I'd ask any such provider "What staff do you have behind the big glass doors, and will they be there next week?"
RE: Does anybody know how close these troubled companies are to shutting down?
James Cramer of TheStreet.com expresses much the same frustration... the execs at the company say one thing, and do another. Here's a recent article related to Exodus' "surprise" shutdown:
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In any case, a cheap, license-free (or let's say, unencumbered by restrictive licensing) desktop would be a natural for public entities that are currently facing very tight budgets. Whether the employees would be happy and productive with such a setup depends on how much work the IT department will put into the changeover; if it's left up to the individual user, happy faces won't be easy to find there.
Personally, I stopped paying attention to reviews years ago (when I found out Leonard Maltin had given Blade Runner 1 and 1/2 stars in his film guide), and instead go on what I see in the previews.
As for this movie, I've seen the Zoolander preview about 4 times now; based upon it, I can't imagine paying for a movie that looks that stupid.
Because of that forward product motion, customers could standardize on the HP platform, and buy 3rd party apps and other items that ran under HP/UX (Oracle in particular, since HP/UX is widely used as a base for client/server). With HP/UX 11i as their main server OS, they had some serious scalability and reliability going for them. HP/UX will be supported for the next few years, of course, but once that ends, customers will have the future budgetary choices of sticking with whatever direction Carly takes them in, or abandon HP for a more consistently-managed vendor (i.e. IBM). Bet they pick the latter choice.
I've filled out at least 3 of them, and they all end up with questions about whether cost would be a major factor in paying for [related service].
Guess they found out that ad volume alone would not support their operation. Glad I didn't buy that stock (YHOO) when it was up in the $200's...
If you go to NASDAQ.com, you will find that EXDS is halted as of 9/26, pending further news. At $0.17, not much room left between here and 0 anyway... may want to sell for a loss when you can. (JMHO)
Having worked there in the recent past, I can say that Q can also be compared to the other big ISPs in terms of overbuilding for a 'new economy' boom that didn't last. They *loved* throwing hardware at any and all issues and projects. And, like many of these other companies, Q has laid off or will lay off many of the people that were previously required to run these networks and CyberCenters. I'd ask any such provider "What staff do you have behind the big glass doors, and will they be there next week?"
James Cramer of TheStreet.com expresses much the same frustration... the execs at the company say one thing, and do another. Here's a recent article related to Exodus' "surprise" shutdown:
Lessons from the Flight out of Exodus